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Author: Thomas de Quincey
Item date: 1822
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 475
Item cost: 475
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

First edition, a fine copy in Taylor and Hesseys trade binding

Author: JW Penfold
Item date: 1845
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 675
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

Contains a dedicatory poem by Wordsworth. The Duchess of Manchester was the principal subscriber: the list is only 66 names long

Item date: 1299 - 1300
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 900
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

Accounts of John Randolph listing income and expenditure in the six forest bailiwicks together with similar accounts for the manors of Lyndhurst, Burghtone, Minnestoke and Ringwood

Item date: 15th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 10,000
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

The Kingsmill familys considerable estates in several counties were all administered from Sydmonton Court and this collection of estate accounts, rentals, surveys, terriers, valuations and settlements gives a very full record of their affairs over several centuries.

Item date: 14th - 16th centuries
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 7,500
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent

175 documents, mostly late-medieval title deeds for parishes all over Kent. Also includes 14 plea rolls for Dover Castle c.1337 - 1400

Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 150
Institution: National Trust, Montacute House
Town/City: Montacute
County: Somerset

Folio, bound in reversed calf, with Phelips family crest stamped in gilt

Item date: 15th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 2,000
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

Over 600 deeds, mostly for Northamptonshire

Item date: 1777 - 1841
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 600
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire

141 items. Mostly printed, though a few are in MS, with annotations giving names of vendors, purchasers and sale prices

Item date: 1873 - mid 20th century
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 400
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire

Notebooks of detailed inventories for probate insurance and valuations for sale; sales books with the names of buyers and prices paid; the firms letters books, office diaries, sale particulars and sale posters

Item date: 12th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 250,000
Institution: Suffolk Record Office
Town/City: Ipswich
County: Suffolk

440 boxes and volumes, as well as charters and deeds there are papers of notable Suffolk antiquaries, borough and manorial records, plans and surveys.